Callixenus of Rhodes

{{Short description|Hellenistic author from Rhodes}} {{for|others of this name|Callixenus}} '''Callixenus of Rhodes''' ({{langx|grc|Καλλίξενος or Καλλίξεινος ὁ Ῥόδιος}}) was a [[Hellenistic]] author from [[Rhodes]]. He was a contemporary of [[Ptolemy II Philadelphus]], [[Ptolemy III Euergetes]] and [[Ptolemy IV Philopator]]. He wrote two works, both of which are lost.

== Works == * ''Peri Alexandreias'' - A work consisting of four books, and referenced much by [[Athenaeus]]<ref>Athenaeus v. p. 196, &c., ix. p. 387, xi. pp. 472, 474, 483; Harpocrat. s. v. eggythike.</ref> It contained the main account of the ''[[Tessarakonteres]]''. * An untitled catalogue of [[Painting|painter]]s and [[sculptor]]s (''Zografon te kai andriantopoion anagrafe''), of which [[Sopater (poet)|Sopater]], in the twelfth book of his ''Eclogae'' had made an abridgement.<ref>Photius ''Bibliotheca'' 161 p. 104 b 38; comp. Preller, Polem. Fragm. p. 178, &c.: ὁ δὲ δωδέκατος αὐτῶι λόγος συνήθροισται ἐξ ἄλλων τι διαφόρων καὶ ἐκ τῆς Καλλιξένου ζωγράφων τε καὶ ἀνδριαντοποιῶν ἀναγραφῆς…</ref>

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== Bibliography== * {{cite book|last=Keyser|first=Paul T.|chapter=Kallixeinos of Rhodes (627)|title=Brill's New Jacoby|editor=Ian Worthington|publisher=Brill Online|year=2014|chapter-url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-jacoby/kallixeinos-of-rhodes-627-a627}}

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